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Data Digest: Open Data for Africa Platform, Silent Data Revolution in MENA and Data Strategies

Tech Soup

The Open Aid Partnership , held Open Nepal Week’s Data Literacy Bootcamp, which gathered over 80 Nepali journalists, developers, coders, and civil society representatives to find, extract, and analyze and visualize public data.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

N — Nurture individuals and organizations by providing the tools, best practices, resources, and services that can help them achieve their goals. Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent. They also have wonderfully egalitarian set of core values: All lives have equal value.

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Reflections on the Science Center World Congress

Museum 2.0

In most sessions, I didn't learn new things to apply to my own museum practice; instead, I learned new things about what that practice looks like in different countries. Casual discussions were steeped in government policies, national literacy rates, and worldwide attitudes towards science.